USERS REVカプセルの開発研究および飛行後解析Research and Development of USERS REV Capsule and its Post-flight Analysis

Start page

21

End page

29

Publication date

2005-03-31

Language

jpn

Abstract

The Unmanned Space Experiment Recovery System (USERS) was launched on September 10th, 2002 from Tanegashima Space Center with the H-2A launch vehicle. On May 30th 2003, the re-entry and recovery operations were successfully conducted, bringing experiment samples and beneficial information back to Earth. USERS became the first national project to succeed in recovery from orbit. In this paper, aerodynamics characteristics of USERS capsule and attitude dynamics that are predicted in design phase are summarized and in-flight attitude dynamics are evaluated.